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Isaiah 41

Isa. 41:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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I will open
pathach (Hebrew #6605)
to open wide (literally or figuratively); specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve
KJV usage: appear, break forth, draw (out), let go free, (en-)grave(-n), loose (self), (be, be set) open(-ing), put off, ungird, unstop, have vent.
Pronounce: paw-thakh'
Origin: a primitive root
rivers
nahar (Hebrew #5104)
a stream (including the sea; expec. the Nile, Euphrates, etc.); figuratively, prosperity
KJV usage: flood, river.
Pronounce: naw-hawr'
Origin: from 5102
d in high places
shphiy (Hebrew #8205)
bareness; concretely, a bare hill or plain
KJV usage: high place, stick out.
Pronounce: shef-ee'
Origin: from 8192
, and fountains
ma`yan (Hebrew #4599)
or (feminine) ma yanah {mah-yaw-naw'}; from 5869 (as a denominative in the sense of a spring); a fountain (also collectively), figuratively, a source (of satisfaction)
KJV usage: fountain, spring, well.
Pronounce: mah-yawn'
Origin: or ma ynow (Psa. 114:8) {mah-yen-o'}
in the midst
tavek (Hebrew #8432)
a bisection, i.e. (by implication) the centre
KJV usage: among(-st), X between, half, X (there- ,where-), in(-to), middle, mid(-night), midst (among), X out (of), X through, X with(-in).
Pronounce: taw'-vek
Origin: from an unused root meaning to sever
of the valleys
biq`ah (Hebrew #1237)
properly, a split, i.e. a wide level valley between mountains
KJV usage: plain, valley.
Pronounce: bik-aw'
Origin: from 1234
: I will make
suwm (Hebrew #7760)
a primitive root; to put (used in a great variety of applications, literal, figurative, inferentially, and elliptically)
KJV usage: X any wise, appoint, bring, call (a name), care, cast in, change, charge, commit, consider, convey, determine, + disguise, dispose, do, get, give, heap up, hold, impute, lay (down, up), leave, look, make (out), mark, + name, X on, ordain, order, + paint, place, preserve, purpose, put (on), + regard, rehearse, reward, (cause to) set (on, up), shew, + stedfastly, take, X tell, + tread down, ((over-))turn, X wholly, work.
Pronounce: soom
Origin: or siym {seem}
the wilderness
midbar (Hebrew #4057)
a pasture (i.e. open field, whither cattle are driven); by implication, a desert; also speech (including its organs)
KJV usage: desert, south, speech, wilderness.
Pronounce: mid-bawr'
Origin: from 1696 in the sense of driving
e a pool
'agam (Hebrew #98)
a marsh; hence a rush (as growing in swamps); hence a stockade of reeds
KJV usage: pond, pool, standing (water).
Pronounce: ag-am'
Origin: from an unused root (meaning to collect as water)
of water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
, and the dry
tsiyah (Hebrew #6723)
aridity; concretely, a desert
KJV usage: barren, drought, dry (land, place), solitary place, wilderness.
Pronounce: tsee-yaw'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to parch
land
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
springs
mowtsa' (Hebrew #4161)
from 3318; a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)
KJV usage: brought out, bud, that which came out, east, going forth, goings out, that which (thing that) is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, spring, vein, (water-)course (springs).
Pronounce: mo-tsaw'
Origin: or motsai {mo-tsaw'}
of water
mayim (Hebrew #4325)
water; figuratively, juice; by euphemism, urine, semen
KJV usage: + piss, wasting, water(-ing, (-course, -flood, -spring)).
Pronounce: mah'-yim
Origin: dual of a primitive noun (but used in a singular sense)
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Psa. 105:41• 41He opened a rock, and waters gushed forth;{HR}They ran in the dry places, a river. (Psa. 105:41)
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Psa. 107:35• 35He turneth a wilderness to a pool of water{HR}And a dry land to water-springs. (Psa. 107:35)

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Fountain,
High Place,
Pools,
River,
Spring,
Vale; Valley,
Wilderness

Cross References

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Isa. 12:3• 3And ye shall draw water with joy from the fountains of salvation. (Isa. 12:3)
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Isa. 30:25• 25And there shall be upon every high mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks, water-courses, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall. (Isa. 30:25)
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Isa. 32:2• 2And a man shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land. (Isa. 32:2)
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Isa. 35:6‑7• 6Then shall the lame [man] leap as a hart, and the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert.
 7And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty land springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, [shall be] grass with reeds and rushes. (Isa. 35:6‑7)
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Isa. 43:19‑20• 19Behold, I will do a new thing; now shall it spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert.
 20The beast of the field shall honour me, the jackals and the ostriches; because I give waters in the wilderness, [and] rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen: (Isa. 43:19‑20)
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Isa. 44:3• 3For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground; I will pour my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring: (Isa. 44:3)
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Isa. 48:21• 21And they thirsted not [when] he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out. (Isa. 48:21)
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Isa. 49:9‑10• 9saying to the prisoners, Go forth, to them that [are] in darkness, Show yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures [shall be] on all bare heights.
 10They shall not hunger nor thirst; neither shall the heat nor sun smite them: for he that hath mercy on them will lead them, and by the springs of water will he guide them. (Isa. 49:9‑10)
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Isa. 58:11• 11and Jehovah will guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make strong thy bones; and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters deceive not. (Isa. 58:11)
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Psa. 46:4• 4[There is] a river; its streams make glad the city of God,{HR}The holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High. (Psa. 46:4)
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Psa. 78:15‑16• 15He clave rocks in the wilderness,{HR}And gave drink as the depths abundantly,
 16He brought streams from the rock (crag){HR}And caused waters to come down like the rivers. (Psa. 78:15‑16)
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Psa. 105:41• 41He opened a rock, and waters gushed forth;{HR}They ran in the dry places, a river. (Psa. 105:41)
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Psa. 107:35• 35He turneth a wilderness to a pool of water{HR}And a dry land to water-springs. (Psa. 107:35)
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Ezek. 47:1‑8• 1Then he brought me back unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued from under the threshold of the house eastward; for the front of the house [was toward] the east, and the waters came down from under the right side of the house, at the south of the altar.
 2And he brought me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the outer gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.
 3And when the man that had the line in his hand went forth eastward, he measured a thousand cubits, and he brought me through the waters; the waters were to the ankles.
 4Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through the waters; the waters were to the knees. Again he measured a thousand, and brought me through; the waters were to the loins.
 5Afterward he measured a thousand; and it was a river that I could not pass over: for the waters were risen, waters to swim in, a river that could not be passed over.
 6And he said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen [this]? Then he brought me, and caused me to return to the brink of the river.
 7Now when I had returned, behold, at the bank of the river were very many trees on the one side and on the other.
 8Then said he unto me, These waters issue out toward the east country, and go down into the desert, and go into the sea; which being brought forth into the sea, the waters shall be healed. (Ezek. 47:1‑8)
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Joel 3:18• 18And it shall come to pass in that day, that the mountains shall drop down new wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the rivers of Judah shall flow with waters, and a fountain shall come forth of the house of Jehovah, and shall water the valley of Shittim. (Joel 3:18)
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Zech. 14:8• 8And it shall be in that day that living waters shall go out from Jerusalem; half of them toward the former sea, and half of them toward the hinder sea: in summer and in winter shall it be. (Zech. 14:8)
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Rev. 7:17• 17For the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall tend them and shall lead them to fountains of waters of life, and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes. (Rev. 7:17)
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Rev. 22:1• 1And he showed me a river of water of life bright as crystal proceeding out of the throne of God and the Lamb. (Rev. 22:1)

J. N. Darby Translation

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I will open rivers on the bareg heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry land into water-springs.

JND Translation Notes

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See ch. 49.9.

W. Kelly Translation

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I will open rivers on the bare heights, and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness into a pool of water, and the dry lands into water-springs.